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Bude, buy cables that are not total crap. I DJ and I go through cables like no one's business but my home setup has had the same cables for years and they only cost me a couple more bucks than the bottom-tier stuff.


If you have a "not crap cable" recommendation I'd love to hear it, but at the same time, I suspect your home setup doesn't involve plugging something into a jack and then removing it quite as many times a day as plugging a phone into a car stereo.


TS connectors were literally designed for telephone switchboards that are connected and disconnected on a near-constant basis. Consumer audio companies happily sell plastic garbage in fancy colors without strain relief, any compensation for compression and wear on the cable itself, and with low-grade connectors... but these are solved problems in the professional world.

If you're a heavy user, buy a cable intended for professional use. As an example, look at these:

https://www.amazon.com/Mogami-Stereo-Cable-3-5mm-Neutrik/dp/...

http://www.markertek.com/product/msc1-5mzmz/mogami-audio-cab...

Mogami specializes in entertainment-grade cable which is often certified to be waterproof, crushproof, oil resistant, UV resistant, etc. The connectors used are from Neutrik, who are also highly reputable. In the event that something goes wrong the parts are usually hand-repairable, and often you can find cable/connector assemblies carrying lifetime warranties. Other reputable names to look for are Belden and Carnare on the cable side and Switchcraft on the connector side.


The trick is to pull the cable by the plug and not by the cable. I've got a few of these $5 cables for different applications and they're great. Smile link: https://smile.amazon.com/Mediabridge-3-5mm-Stereo-Audio-Cabl...




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